The truth of the matter is that all the metrical features that are demanded of poetry belong to the ornamental requirements like metaphors, myths, rhetorical flourishes and all other gewgaws.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Ulysses, disguised as a peddler, visited these women, carrying a basket full of feminine gewgaws.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
The author saw women, who were acting as nurses to the children of European residents, wearing all these gewgaws as described, the gross weight of which must have been considerable.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou